THAKEHAM, a parish in the hundred of EAST-EASWRITH,
rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 65
miles (N.W.) from Steyning, containing, with the house
of industry for six other parishes, 603 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chichester, rated in the king's books at £14.9. 9.,
and in the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the early,
and partly in the later, style of English architecture.